Quotes

Talent is Overrated, Page 15

Understanding where extraordinary performance comes from would be valuable at any time. Now it’s crucial.

The 5 Levels of Leadership, Page 015

Growing as a leader requires a combination of intentional growth and leadership experience.

Why Managers Matter, Page 016

For most companies… the perils of the bossless company structure are roadblocks to profitability and growth.

Out of Our Minds, Page 016

…education is meant to guide us from childhood to maturity. It should be high among the ways in which we realize our creative abilities. More often it is why we lose sight of them.

Never Split the Difference, Page 16

By listening intensely, a negotiator demonstrates empathy and shows a sincere desire to better understand what the other side is experiencing.

Talent is Overrated, Page 16

Most of what we want to do is hard. That’s life. Encountering problems, discouragement, and disappointment is inevitable.

The 5 Levels of Leadership, Page 016

…success at any level helps you to be successful at every level. So work hard to win the level you’re on now. It will prepare you for the future.

Hooked, Page 16

…ingrained habits – behaviors done with little or no conscious thought… by some estimates, guide nearly half of our daily actions.

Freakonomics, Page 016

An incentive is a bullet, a lever, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation.

Think Again, Page 16

The problem is that we live in a rapidly changing world, where we need to spend as much time rethinking as we do thinking.